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" You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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" The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. "
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" My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. "
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" Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. "
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" To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. "
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" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "
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" I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. "
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" Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. "
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" To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. "
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" Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. "
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" Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. "
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" Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. "
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" Forgotten is forgiven. "
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" You can stroke people with words. "
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" An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. "
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" Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. "
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West
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" The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. "
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Gold
Growth
" Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. "
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Early Childhood
Early
" At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. "
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" Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. "
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Form
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" Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. "
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" Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. "
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Will
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" No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. "
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Willing
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" All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. "
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Swimming
Breath
Water
" It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. "
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Sick
Race
" Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. "
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" The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. "
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" His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. "
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Sin
Great
" Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. "
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" It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. "
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" There are no second acts in American lives. "
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